At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer sky, beats a source of high-energy cosmic ray particles: the Cygnus Cocoon. An international group of scientists at the HAWC observatory has gathered evidence that this vast astronomical structure is the most powerful of our galaxy s natural particle accelerators known of up to now.
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IMAGE: An infrared image of the dust clouds in the Cocoon region taken with the Spitzers Space Telescope s IR photometer. The HAWC TeV gamma-ray excess (color from green to yellow to. view more
Credit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer s Growing Legacy, ASP Conference Series, 2010, P. Ogle, ed.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 11, 2021 A long-time question in astrophysics appears to finally be answered, thanks to a collection of large, high-tech water tanks on a mountainside in Mexico. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) data shows that the highest-energy cosmic rays come not from supernovae, but from star clusters.
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